Legarda Street

Legarda Street

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Legarda Street eastbound in Sampaloc
The route of Legarda Street in Metro Manila. Legarda Street is highlighted in red.
Former name(s)Calle Alix
Plaza Santa Ana
Calle Concordia
Part of
NamesakeBenito Legarda
José María Alix y Bonache (formerly)
Length1.4 km (0.87 mi)
LocationManila
East end N140 (Lacson Avenue / Nagtahan Street) / N180 (Magsaysay Boulevard) / Jose P. Laurel Street at Nagtahan Interchange
Major
junctions
West end N180 (Nepomuceno Street) in Quiapo

Legarda Street is a short street in the Sampaloc district of Manila, Philippines. It crosses through the eastern section of the University Belt area in a generally east–west orientation between the Nagtahan Interchange and the intersection with Nepomuceno Street in Quiapo. Legarda station of the LRTA's Line 2 system serves it.

The street was named after Filipino legislator and resident commissioner to the United States, Benito Legarda y Tuason.[1] Historically, its section in Sampaloc was formerly called Calle Alix (after a Real Audiencia of Manila magistrate of the 1860s, José María Alix y Bonache),[2][3] while its section in Quiapo was formerly called Plaza Santa Ana and Calle Concordia, respectively.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ "Did you know? Legarda Street". Philippine Daily Inquirer. September 27, 2013. Retrieved November 1, 2013.
  2. ^ "Legarda Street". Historiles.com. Retrieved November 1, 2013.
  3. ^ "Full text of "Guía oficiál de España"". Archive.org. 1874. Retrieved November 1, 2013.
  4. ^ de Gamoneda, Francisco J. (1898). Plano de Manila y sus Arrables [Map of Manila and its suburbs] (Map). 1:10,000 (in Spanish). Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  5. ^ Malcolm, George (1917). The Charter of the City of Manila, with which are Printed Such Further Portions of the Administrative Code and Other Laws as Mention and Directly Concern the Government of the City, and the Revised Ordinances ... Together with Certain Special Ordinances ... All Annotated with Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States and of the Philippines. Manila, Philippines: Manila Bureau of Printing. p. 489.
  6. ^ Map of the City of Manila and vicinity (Map). United States. War Department. General Staff. 1907. Retrieved March 27, 2022.